My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1009: Take precautions before they happen

The Heavenly Court, the Celestial Palace of Creation.

After creating the super metal puppet with the skin of an elite demonic mosquito, the security level of the Creation Immortal Palace increased dramatically, and Wen Rui's core technology laboratory was simply moved to the palace.

The Jin'ao Island laboratory isn't bad, but the problem is that Wen Rui can only conduct experiments in the form of a divine avatar. Many cultivation technology researches that require the main body to release a massive amount of immortal power are very troublesome to carry out.

They moved to the Creation Palace, located in the core area of ​​the Heavenly Court. Not only could Wen Rui personally handle the tasks, but the concentration of immortal energy in this area was also ridiculously high. When encountering experiments that consumed immortal power, he only needed to breathe for a moment to replenish his immortal jade, thus saving a lot of immortal jade.

In this magical world, immortals and gods are real and objective facts. Wen Rui's research is already inseparable from immortal power, so setting up the laboratory in the Heavenly Court is the best location.

The Creation Palace, which the laboratory moved to, is very different from before. The main hall no longer contains a solitary throne of the Heavenly Venerable and a central control console of an information center filled with monitoring screens.

Dozens of metal arms, each with a slender probe at its end, are suspended below the light netting at the zenith and slowly extend and retract towards the ground.

Some probe tips are covered with a translucent gel-like substance that gleams oily under light. Occasionally, a drop will fall to the ground and instantly crystallize into a grain of rice.

As the mechanical insects crawl along the metal rails at the edge of the optical network, a string of pale blue data appears on the rail surface, as if recording something.

The device in the very center that looks like the bronze treasure tree from Sanxingdui is actually a fully automated experimental rack. The alloy branches are welded with a dense array of interfaces, some of which are connected to transparent tubing. The pale green liquid inside the tubing climbs up along the tubes in the branches, circulates in the crystal leaves, and then flows back to the large glass tank at the bottom of the tree through another tube.

In the culture medium in the glass tank, there was a clone of Wen Rui. This clone was different from the mass-produced consumables that Wen Rui had made before. Its physical body had reached the level of a genuine Golden Immortal.

This clone is completely different from Wen Rui's original body. Wen Rui's original physical body is actually the body of a bio-engineered demon, which is completely different from the body of a meritorious deity or an immortal.

The suspicions that the Western Sect and the Chan Sect had about Wen Rui were not unfounded. He was brazenly parading around in the city with the body of a bio-engineered demon. Even if the divine senses of the gods and Buddhas were dull and their ability to predict destiny was interfered with by the system, they would still be able to detect the slightest clue.

It's just that the truth is often hidden. Even if people suspected him of harboring evil intentions or being a reincarnation of a demon, they never expected that he could genetically modify his physical body into a demonic form.

After all, he was Wen Zhong's son, and unlike Nezha, he wasn't born as a ball of flesh. Wen Zhong himself certified him as a mortal.

Based on Wen Zhong's vertical eye between his eyebrows, there is absolutely no way that a demon could have impersonated his son and lurked by his side for so many years.

Wen Rui's caution fooled the gods and Buddhas for a time, but he dared not gamble that he could fool them forever. If even a single drop of flesh and blood fell from this demonic body and the gods and Buddhas used it to test its attributes, he would immediately reveal his flaws. He was not just a reincarnated demon soul, but a demon king incarnate.

Out of a sense of precaution, Wen Rui spent a great deal of resources, using the advanced gene-editing technology rewards obtained from the system and the research notes of Mosquito Taoist, to develop this immortal body substitute.

The design concept of this substitute is to remove all genetic defects and strengthen all advantageous genes from the body that originally inherited only one ten-thousandth of Wen Zhong's talent for cultivating immortality, transforming it into the appearance of the most perfect son in Wen Zhong's dreams.

This clone looks exactly like Wen Rui, but the complexity of its meridians far surpasses that of the ancient sacred beast meridians of the Phoenix Saint Descendant of Junior Sister Luan.

Moreover, he also has a tightly closed vertical eye between his eyebrows on his forehead. Wen Zhong possesses the bloodline of the ancient three-eyed god clan, a bloodline that shares the same dominant gene expression as Erlang Shen Yang Jian, the nephew of the Jade Emperor, namely, the divine eye between his eyebrows.

Yang Jian's lineage naturally comes from his mother, the Jade Emperor's sister, Lady Yunhua Yaoji.

The ancient gods possessed the most noble bloodline in the Three Realms, and were the celestial nobles, enjoying boundless prestige among the immortals.

Wen Zhong stood on the opposite side of the Heavenly Court during the Investiture of the Gods, obstructing the great undertaking at every turn. Yet, after his death, he was able to be enshrined as a Heavenly Venerable. His own merits and virtues were one factor, but his bloodline as an ancient deity was also an important one.

How can the royal family of the Three Realms be punished the same as a mere immortal? The Chan Sect places the greatest emphasis on bloodline theory. The more they despise those who are "born of fur and horns, born from eggs and moisture," the more they value the imperial family.

Based solely on the unmistakable divine lineage of the vertical eye between his eyebrows, Wen Zhong should at least have been granted the title of Emperor. In addition, his character and abilities were further elevated, earning him the title of Heavenly Venerable.

Wen Rui's ability to be granted the title of Heavenly Venerable was also due to the advantage of his ancient bloodline; otherwise, his merit in resisting the Blood Sea Demon Clan alone would have been far from sufficient.

Even his shameless insistence on marrying the already married Princess Longji to the Queen Mother, and the fact that the Jade Emperor reluctantly agreed, was also related to his lineage as an ancient god.

Noble bloodlines emphasize purity. The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother strongly opposed female members of the divine race marrying men of lowly bloodlines, believing it would defile the bloodline of the Heavenly Court and result in unfilial children.

Wen Rui's unreasonable demands were right above their acceptable threshold. They were in a state of ambiguity, and at worst, they would just have to break off relations with Wen Rui.

However, considering Wen Rui's bloodline, although he didn't open his third eye like Wen Zhong and show it clearly enough, he was still more worthy of Princess Longji's divine bloodline than Hong Jin, that mortal bastard. That's why I reluctantly agreed.

The clone created by Wen Rui was specially prepared in case the secret of the bio-engineered demon body was discovered.

From the perspective of overall physical fitness alone, this body, which has already reverted to the bloodline of ancient gods by 99%, is actually inferior to the bio-engineered demon body developed independently.

Although this body possesses the most superior spiritual root in the Three Realms, with an astonishing 100% absorption and conversion rate of immortal energy, it doesn't need to cultivate; its cultivation level can be continuously improved simply by breathing.

However, the drawbacks are also obvious. In environments with low concentrations of celestial energy, it can cause a suffocating feeling, similar to lack of oxygen. In environments like the underworld, where yin and demonic energy are abundant, it can cause a significant reduction in overall strength, much like when the gods of heaven descend upon the demon realm.

In contrast, the bio-engineered demon body is much more adaptable to the environment; just because it has the word "demon" in its name does not necessarily mean it is more compatible with demonic energy.

This body's genes were edited with the characteristic of the Mosquito Taoist to absorb all energy and matter and convert it into his own power. Although the conversion rate did not reach 100%, it exceeded 80%.

Immortal energy, spiritual energy, demonic energy, monster energy, and even human energy can all be absorbed and drawn upon by this bio-engineered demon body.

The celestial realm, the mortal realm, the earthly realm, the demon realm, and the demon cave are all home turf for this bio-engineered demon body.

(End of this chapter)